Cultivar

B. ‘Manahydro’

Identity

Genus: Begonia
Name: B. ‘Manahydro’
Originator: Francis Michelson
Date of Origin: 1958
Publication Date: 1976
Place: Miami, Fl.
Country: USA
Region: America
Plant Type: Rhizomatous
Female Parent: B. ‘Manacris’
Male Parent: B. hydrocotylifolia var. hydrocotylifolia
ABS No: 528
Publication Reference: ABS;B76 a168
Article References: The Begonian (43) June 1976, p. 155-169.

Plant

Description: No. 528 - Begonia (B. 'Manacris' x B. hydrocotylifolia) 'Manahydro' Large, rhizomatous plant was originated by F. Michelson (address above) in 1958 and first bloomed in 1959. Leaves are light-green and mottled, dark-green and pale pink underneath, almost round orbicular obtuse, 10 x 10 in.; margin dentate serrate, ciliate; veins depressed; petioles small with short pink hairs; stipules light green. Flowers are pink, 1 in., on 10-inch stem blooming January- March. Registered March 26, 1976.

Lineage

Parents

Female parent

B. ‘Manacris’

Male parent

B. hydrocotylifolia var. hydrocotylifolia

Ancestry tree

B. ‘Manahydro’

Female parent

B. ‘Manacris’

Cited as a seedling of the female parent

Female parent

B. ‘Manicata Crispa’

Male parent

B. hydrocotylifolia var. hydrocotylifolia

B. hydrocotylifolia Graham ex Klotzsch, Monatsber. Königel. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin :125. 1854 pro syn. Gireoudia hydrocotylifolia (Otto ex W.J. Hooker) Klotzsch. 1854;

Descendants

No recorded descendants.

Culture

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